This maker made a huge real-life Google Earth pin point icon, if timed right it might even show up on the satellite photos! – Link. Thanks Mark! Related: Google Earth – 1790 – Link. HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth…. – Link. 3D Google Earth – Link. Drawing with Google Earth and […]
Craig sent this DIY blood smear site, he writes – “Blood smears are neat because they’re a particularly simple way of looking at your own cells. Other tissues usually require complicated preparations and specialized equipment needed to get thin sections, but since blood is a liquid you can just smear it out into a film […]
Benjamin Heckendorn shows you how to turn old arcade games into consoles to plug in to your TV, he writes – “In this How-To we’re going to describe the method by which you can take old arcade motherboards, easily attainable on eBay, and “consolize” them for use with a standard TV and controllers. Many people […]
John writes – “I discovered this while searching the ‘Net today. Make a rubber band powered helicopter out of a business card? Wow! This sounds simply fantastic!” – Link & translated page. From the pages of MAKE: Building an Ornithopter – For millennia, men and women have studied birds, bats, and beetles, observing and experimenting, […]
Chris writes – “I just took this pic as I was walking down the street here in Palo Alto. This Maker has built an electric 3-wheel transport device, and he/she is charging it as it sits parked in the street! I don’t know who it is….” This thing is awesome. Ok, Makers – let’s see […]
The old Apple studio displays make excellent cases for putting a new computer inside, Toolman hacked up one pretty nicely, here are the photos, video and build notes… [via] – Link. Related: Nintendo Entertainment Center PC case mod… – Link. Commodore PET / CBM reto case mod – Link. Case Mods – The Ultimate List […]
If you’re in LA on 12/02 pop by and visit! – “Please join us Saturday Dec 2nd at 5:30pm for a very special meeting of Dorkbot SoCal to launch the new issue of MAKE magazine. Simon Penny (Director of UCI’s Arts Computation Engineering program) will speak on integrating interaction design, space design, structure design, mechanical […]
